Showing papers in "Vehicular Communications in 2015"

TL;DR: A platoon management protocol for CACC vehicles based on wireless communication through VANET based on three basic platooning maneuvers and a set of micro-commands to accomplish these maneuvers is developed.

TL;DR: The topic of vehicular networks in the context of C-ITS from an evolutionary point of view is analyzed, scanning early concepts and enabling technologies, current status and future opportunities, with a look on a future fully networked vehicular environment.

TL;DR: A distributed and adaptive resource management controller, which allows the optimal exploitation of Cognitive Radio and soft-input/soft-output data fusion in Vehicular Access Networks and is capable to self-acquire context information about the currently available bandwidth-energy resources.

TL;DR: A state-of-the-art survey of the MAC protocols available for vehicular safety, classify these protocols based on different applications and the techniques they adopt, and qualitatively analyze the protocolsbased on different parameters along with related issues and the challenges they generate.

TL;DR: A taxonomy of adaptive traffic signal control strategies achieved through various levels of vehicular communications is presented, as the prevalence of smartphones has suggested supplementing legacy traffic monitoring with traffic-related reports submitted by the driving public.

TL;DR: The light is shed over the latest advancements in each of the above-mentioned research sectors and highlights pending open issues in each in terms of several classical metrics.

TL;DR: Simulation results show that the forwarding strategy can greatly enhance NDN for data dissemination in urban VANETs, which achieves 27%~75% higher request success ratio, and 40%~80% lower delay compared with the original NDN strategy in scenarios with different vehicle densities.

TL;DR: This paper analyzed and implemented a reliable time-efficient and multi-hop broadcasting scheme, called Dynamic Partitioning Scheme (DPS), which works well in both dense and light traffic scenarios and outperforms five efficient broadcasting protocols in VANETs in terms of delay and reliability.

TL;DR: A cluster based aggregation-dissemination beaconing process that uses an optimized topology to distribute the vehicle proximity map that is adaptive and robust in order to meet the challenging VANET conditions.

TL;DR: A distributed scheme that controls the spatial reuse distance to improve the efficiency of BSM transmissions in space-division multiple access (SDMA) based VANETs and determines the optimal bandwidth utilization that maximizes the newly-defined criterion termed as 'safe range,' an important figure-of-merit in vehicular safety applications.

TL;DR: This work investigates the behavior of distributed relay node election protocols and proposes the integration into the protocol of a probabilistic decimation logic, with minimal impact on the protocol complexity, that serves to alleviate the occurrence of spurious forwarding events and enhances the system's throughput rate and packet delivery ratios.

TL;DR: An inter-vehicular communication (IVC)-based algorithm for real-time route guidance in urban traffic networks and the data entities of knowledge sharing among the vehicles and the algorithmic procedure as well as the conditions for information sharing are presented.

TL;DR: A Context Aware Variable Interval MAC (CAVI-MAC) protocol for IEEE 802.11p/WAVE VANETs is introduced which utilizes multichannel access scheduling in a novel way and a novel atomic model is used to analyze the propagation of event driven messages.

TL;DR: In this paper, the well-known Ad-hoc On demand Distance Vector routing protocol is modified by replacing the flooding mechanism, used in its route discovery process, with the probabilistic forwarding technique given by Irresponsible Forwarding (IF).

TL;DR: Coder, a context-based predictive handover mechanism that considers vehicle's trajectory, road topology, and network deployment information to decide the best handover location and candidate access points, is proposed and validated.

TL;DR: After comparison of different proposed trust-estimation algorithms in simulated environment, results reveal that the unsupervised k-means based consensus clustering algorithm is an effective solution for precise estimation of the trustworthiness of the collaborating node.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that TrafficEQ can address the Flash Crowd Effect by reducing travel time oscillations among the alternative routes by using realistic simulations of incident-related capacity drops on a classic two-route highway example and a realistic urban road network.

TL;DR: Analytical and simulation results agree and show that PCCW and EPCCW protocols significantly improve reliability performance relative to the leading safety messaging protocols.

TL;DR: Through extensive analysis and evaluations, this work sets up a new evaluation platform for in-cabin Wi-Fi communications based on extensive simulations and shows how to configure the in-CabinWi-Fi to guarantee the quality of service.

TL;DR: Named Data Networking (NDN) as discussed by the authors is a data-centric networking architecture designed for the future Internet, instead of establishing host-based end-to-end communications, NDN accomplishes the content re...